FCC Dismisses Various Challenges to Rural Broadband Experiment Obligations
FCC staff rejected challenges to the rural broadband experiment post-selection duties of parties whose bids were provisionally selected to receive funding. The FCC Wireline Bureau dismissed the petitions of Lake Region Electric Cooperative, Wichita Online and Halstad Telephone for waivers…
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of a requirement to submit by a deadline acceptable bank letters that commit to issuing irrevocable stand-by letters of credit for amounts equal to their bid amounts, said consolidated orders in docket 10-90 listed in Tuesday's Daily Digest. The orders also rejected: a Halstad recon petition of a bureau order finding it in default on the requirement; a Wichita Online petition to waive a requirement to submit by a deadline proof of its designation as an eligible telecom carrier in areas covered by its bid; and a Lake Region recon petition of a bureau determination, in the Connect America Fund Phase II challenge process, that certain areas targeted by its bid already were served and thus ineligible for Phase II support.